The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) is a British television comedy and music programme that was made by Thames Television for ITV from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.

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Philip Jones, Thames Television's head of light entertainment, asked his son who he would like to see on television - he replied Kenny Everett. The show's format was conceived over lunch and a walk between producer David Mallet and Everett himself, having decided that they could not watch on television what they wanted to watch.

Originally, the Video Show consisted of Everett in the role of a visual DJ linking studio performances from bands, singers, and the show's resident dance troupe Hot Gossip, along with occasional sketches and Captain Kremmen cartoons. As the series developed, the linking material became longer and more varied - to such an extent that the final series, renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette, focused far more heavily on the comedy with just one musical guest per week.^[2]

The Video Show was performed to the studio crew with their laughter heard on the finished programme, unlike Everett's later BBC series, The Kenny Everett Television Show, which had a conventional live studio audience. Bloopers were often not edited out of sketches. Two pilot episodes were made, which no longer exist.^[3] Initially, the series was produced at Thames' Euston Road headquarters in central London and recorded in small studios normally used for news and current affairs programmes. Production later transferred to Thames' main studios in Teddington.

As of October 2021, the series was being repeated on nostalgia-themed Freeview station That's TV Gold alongside another Thames TV comedy show licensed from Fremantle, The Best of Tommy Cooper.^[4][5] That's TV have kept Everett's 'naughty bits' intact with a warning added at the beginning of the programme and after the advert break, due to the prospect of the content causing offence to modern viewers.

During the 1980s, several VHS, Betamax and Laserdisc compilations of the series were released by Thames Video. A six-DVD set containing four series - plus the three New Year specials - was released in November 2018. These are edited down, however, due to licensing issues restricting the use of certain musical acts in some episodes.^[7]

• The Best of the Kenny Everett Video Show (Vol. 1) (Thames Video - 1981)
• The Best of the Kenny Everett Video Show (Vol. 2) (Thames Video - 1982)
• The Best of the Kenny Everett Video Show (Vol. 3) (Thames Video - 1982)
• Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits (Thames Video - 1989)
• More of Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits (Thames Video - 1989)
• The Kenny Everett Video Show (short term storage - 2018)

Both Naughty Bits compilations from 1989 were chosen for release on the 2004 DVD, The Complete Naughty Bits.